Fascinating interview. It was particularly interesting having all three on set at once. I am a huge Gene Wolfe fan (who isn’t) and it was fun seeing him interact with two sf greats. Sorry, one sf great and another (Ellison) who doesn’t write sf.

as the coiner of the CLI FI term as a subgenre of SCI FI, and a big fan of MR Asimov (I know his niece in California), i loved this video and see the Guardian UK news story on CLI FI term google it and if i may rephrase this ”I think Studs Terkel may have nailed the SF definition question in this video: “We can be a whole lot better than we are”. I’d like to suggest that with CLI FI novels and movies, we can do a whole lot better than we are currently doing in facing climate chaos issues threatening future generations.” can i say that? my blog is called CLI FI CENTRAL, come visit at blogspot

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TSP On This Day

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Did you ever get a song stuck in your head? Usually songs that won't go away are the annoying ones. Things like Toto's "Rosanna" or the McCartney/Wonder duet "Ebony & Ivory". This week's cranial throbbing, for me, is courtesy of the worst song ever: Starship's "We Built This City". (And, in case you were wondering, the band's name makes it Continue Reading →

The Book Swede interviews Brian Ruckley, author of Winterbirth. "I admit there are a few more deaths in Winterbirth than is common in a lot [of] fantasy. I've got a vicious streak, though I'm not sure I'll ever quite match GRRM's bodycount." [via Orbit] The latest SF Site column Books I've Been Avoiding: Overlooked or Over-hyped? by Neil Walsh looks Continue Reading →

Mahvesh Murad is a book critic and recovering radio show host from Karachi, Pakistan, where she still lives and works. She hosted Pakistan's only book show for 7 years on the country's biggest English language commercial radio station. She writes for multiple publications including Dawn Books & Authors, Tor.com, Strange Horizons and Pornokitsch, and does commercial voice work for both Continue Reading →